How can this be possible in a county that contains the highest village in Britain, Flash: The village, in the Staffordshire Moorlands, stands at 463 m (1518 ft) above sea level?
Here is the exclusive NW sourced list of things to do in Staffs and I intend to visit and provide reports on these in the near future in a form of Round Staffs Rally:
Ancient High House
Belvide Reservoir
Biddulph Grange
Blithbury Reindeer Lodge
Blithfield Hall
Blithfield Reservoir
Bomb crater at RAF Fauld
Brindley Water Mill
Broad Eye Windmill
Burslem Hall
Cannock Chase
Chasewater Railway
Cheddleton Flint Mill
Churnet Valley Railway
Coors Visitor Centre and Museum of Brewing (previously the Bass Museum) Closed in June 2008
Croxden Abbey
Dovecliff Hall
Downs Banks
Drayton Manor Theme Park
Eccleshall Castle
Festival Park
Ford Green Hall
Foxfield Steam Railway
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Hanley Park
Heart of England Way
Moseley Railway Trust (Apedale)
Ilam Park
Izaak Walton Cottage Museum
Manifold Way following the route of the former Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway
Lichfield Cathedral
Lichfield Road
Madeley Old Hall
Michelin Man (giant)
Monkey Forest
Moseley Old Hall
Mow Cop Castle
National Memorial Arboretum
Peak District National Park
RSPB Coombes Valley
Rudyard Lake Steam Railway
Sandon Hall
Shugborough Estate
Stafford Castle
Staffordshire Regiment Museum
Stafford Services M6 North bound
Stafford Services M6 North bound
Staffordshire Moorlands
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
The Pennine Way
The Roaches
Tamworth Castle
Trentham Gardens
Trentham Lakes
Tutbury Castle
Victoria Park
Wall Roman Site
Wedgwood Museum
Weston Park
Whitmore Hall
Apedale Community Country Park
It must be aptly named a 'Lonely Planet' book since they haven't done or seen any of the good stuff you know about.......
ReplyDeleteI'm more a Rough Guide sort of person!
DeleteWell I learned a new word. Thank you. And I look forward to front line reports of the happenings of Staffs.
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ReplyDeletewhy is Apedale at the bottom when it is an "A" ? You put it after the "W" . Same with Manifold Way . . .
I am waiting anxiously for more information on "THE ROACHES"
thank you
bob
Riding the Wet Coast
Like most things in my blog whilst I strive for absolute perfection I fall lamentably short.
DeleteThe Roaches is an outcrop of rock shaped in the form of phallic symbology if my memeory serves me correctly.
I think I need to book a couple of weeks in Staffordshire if only to see the giant Michelin Man.
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I think 5 minutes might be stretching it somewhat but it may take some time to find him again.
DeleteThat's a fine list, Nikos, and it only goes to prove how out of touch Lonely Planet are these days. It's also a very British list: Izaak Walton, miniature steam railways, and there's Rudyard Kipling in there somewhere; and I'd like to think that Kathy Staff is also from Staffs.
ReplyDeleteShe looks typical for the area that's for sure!
ReplyDeleteI think at least three of these have been RBR Landmarks. Can you make a handy spotters' guide, in the style of Big Chief I-Spy?
DeleteI used to adore I-Spy books
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